Community psychology - Duffy, Karen Grover; Wong, Frank Y. 1958- (Boston Allyn and Bacon, 2003)
I. Introduction -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Community Psychology -- Brief Historical Background -- Philosophy and Goals of Community Psychology -- Community Psychology Today: Progress in the Field -- Community Psychology Today: What's in it for you? -- Plan of the Book -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Scientific Research Methods -- The Essence of Scientific Research -- Traditional Scientific Research Methods -- Other Research Methods Used in Community Psychology -- The Urgency of Research in Community Psychology and Related Pitfalls -- Summary -- II. Social Change -- Chapter 3: The Importance of Social Change -- Reasons for Social Change -- Types of Social Change -- Why Change Plans Fail -- Chapter 4: Creating and Sustaining Social Change -- Creating Planned Change -- Citizen Participation -- Networking ? Professional Change Agents: Consultants -- The Use of Education and Information Dissemination to Produce Social Change -- Public Policy as a Means of Social Change -- Summary -- III. Community Mental Health -- Chapter 5: Stress, Coping, and Social Support: Toward Community Mental Health -- Historical Notes on mental Health and Mental Disorder --Stress -- Factors that Influence Adjustment and Coping -- Primary Prevention: Coping Strategies -- Summary -- Chapter 6: The Mentally Disordered: A Place in the Community -- Historical Notes about Mental Disorders -- Deinstitutionalization -- Beyond Deinstitutionalization -- Summary -- IV. Community Psychology in Other Settings -- Chapter 7: Social and Human Services in the Community -- Brief Historical Notes about Social Welfare in Western Society -- Specific Social Issues and Social Services -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Schools. Children, and Communities -- The Early Childhood Movement -- The Public Schools -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Law, Crime, and the Community -- The Traditional Justice System -- Addressing Diverse Justice System Needs with Community Psychology -- Chapter 10: Health Care -- In Sickness and in Health: Social Inequity -- Public versus Private Sector: Managed Care -- Community Psychology and Public health -- Urban versus Rural Health -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Community Health and Preventive Medicine -- Tobacco -- Alcohol -- Illicit Drugs -- Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Diseases -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Community Organizational Psychology -- What Do Organizational and Community Psychology Share? -- Everyday Problems in Community Organizations -- Traditional Techniques for Managing Organizations -- Overview of Organizational Change -- Changing the Whole Organization -- Group Change within the Organization -- Helping Individuals Change within the Organization -- Changing What People Do: Altering Jobs -- Does Organizational Intervention Work? -- Summary -- V. Where to From Here? -- Chapter 13: The Future of Community Psychology -- Recent Social and Political Agendas Affecting Community Psychology -- General Recommendations about Social Change and Community Psychology for the Coming Years.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-335) and indexes.
Keywords: Community psychology